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Link Posted: 12/19/2008 4:32:09 PM EDT
[#1]
Link Posted: 12/19/2008 10:26:07 PM EDT
[#2]
We were one by Patrick O'Donell http://www.wewereone.com/

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

Generation Kill, basically the same as One Bullet away, Only One bullet away was better.

The Lucifer Princible - Howard Bloom -Starts a little slow but picks up about midway through

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

Salt
A World History
by Mark Kurlansky an interesting read with parallels to our oil issues of today

The Mask of Command
John Keegan - Boring!

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 still fighting my way through it.

Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) By Robert Spencer

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins


The
Autobiography
of the
Top Ranked
Marine Sniper
SHOOTER



Link Posted: 12/26/2008 7:10:56 PM EDT
[#3]
The Long Walk - Written by Stephen King under a psuedonym which I can't remember.
Link Posted: 12/28/2008 2:17:43 PM EDT
[#4]
The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan by Lester W. Grau (Translator, Editor)

The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War
Link Posted: 12/29/2008 7:54:45 PM EDT
[Last Edit: votefromrooftops] [#5]
"Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow
"Brave New World" by Huxley
"Stranger In A Strange Land" by Heinlein  
"John Adams" by McCullough
"Black Hawk Down" by Bowden
"In the Name of the Rose" by Eco
"The Fall of Lucifer" by Wendy Alec
"The Divine Invasion" by Phillip K. Dick
"Genghis Khan" by Weatherford
"Rainbow Six" by Clancy
Link Posted: 12/30/2008 11:01:32 PM EDT
[#6]
Lies My Teacher Told Me... by James W. Loewen

Roadwork by Stephen King
Link Posted: 1/10/2009 1:47:33 AM EDT
[#7]
the greatest book ever and the greatest book on battle- Homer's Illiad (Robert Fagles translation)
Link Posted: 1/12/2009 12:23:42 AM EDT
[#8]
The Stand by Stephen King



Damn it was long but good.
Link Posted: 2/15/2009 12:42:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Sidhe] [#9]
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan: ( if you don't know, just buy the books)

The Prey Series by John Sandford: (fiction, a detective who hunts serial killers)

The Cactus Throne by Richard O'Connor: (True history of Maximillian and Carlotta)

Phase Line Green: The Battle for Hue, by Nicholas Warr:( true history of a squad's battle, written by the squad leader)

When Hell Was in Session by Senator Jeremiah Denton : (details his time spent in the Hanoi Hilton, and his escapes)

Bloody Mary by (I think) Carolly Erickson (I think this is the correct book–– True history of Mary Stuart)

Elizabeth and Catherine (true history) by Robert Coughlan

The First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown, and Cesaer's Women:  (an accurate historical series)  by Colleen McCollough

The Dresden Files, and the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher (see The Wheel of time series ;)  )

The Stainless Steel Rat series, and the Pyrrhus series, by Harry Harrison (Science fiction, great writing style, and funny)
Link Posted: 2/15/2009 12:47:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Sidhe] [#10]
Also, if you read Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, you should also read 1984 by George Orwell, and A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.  Three worlds––essentially the same world, accomplished three different ways. Interesting to see how one is accomplished through fear/Big Brother, brainwashing and destruction of the language; another through scientific manipulation, and the other through religion.

It's amazing how many ways people can be manipulated without truly realizing it until it's too late.
Link Posted: 2/15/2009 1:10:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Sidhe] [#11]
Armor, by John Steakley

Phantom, by Susan Kay (retells the Phantom of the Opera's life, from the points of view of all the main characters)

Summer of Night, and Carrion Comfort  by Dan Simmons

Dust,  by Charles Pelligrino

Next,  by Michael Crichton

Anything written by Nelson Demille or James Patterson

JohnathanLivingston Seagull, One, and Illusions by Richard Bach

and, if you like poetry, try Robert Service. He's very down-to-earth, and was called "The W W II" Poet. He wrote poems such as, "The March of the Dead"  and "The Cremation of Sam McGee." http://www.robertwservice.com/
Link Posted: 3/3/2009 7:52:08 PM EDT
[#12]
Under and Alone by ATF agent Billy Queen- infiltrating the Mongols Outlaw motorcycle club
Ted White and Blue , God ,Guns and Rock & Roll  byTed Nugent
Link Posted: 3/4/2009 9:48:45 AM EDT
[Last Edit: heybaby] [#13]
If any one read Thomas Harris Hannibal Lectar's books and enjoyed than try Chelsea Cain's Heartsick and Sweetheart    great books
Link Posted: 3/14/2009 10:43:14 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Polish_Infidel] [#14]
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
To the Last Man by Jeff Shaara
SOG by John Plaster
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth
Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JR Tolkien
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
The Tides of War by Steven Pressfield
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
D-Day by Stephen Ambrose
Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
Link Posted: 3/20/2009 11:51:54 PM EDT
[#15]
Assault Rifle The Development of the Modern Military Rifle and its Ammunition (Maxim Popenker and Anthony G. Williams)

ISBN: 186126700-2
Link Posted: 3/26/2009 7:09:32 PM EDT
[#16]
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

and most recently,

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin
Link Posted: 3/26/2009 10:42:59 PM EDT
[#17]
2 books about growing up in Rhodesia:

Mukiwa by Peter Godwin
A bit too much white guilt for my taste but still a good read.

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Written in a unique style that some admittedly might find not to their liking (I liked her style, personally), this book is an excellent memoir.
Link Posted: 4/7/2009 10:28:38 AM EDT
[#18]
Hunting Eichmann, by Neal Bascomb

Excellent read, hard to put down, true story of how Adolf Eichmann was located in Argentina (by largely independent/freelance Nazi hunters) and after fits and false starts, was finally kidnapped (kicking and screaming from outside his squalid hut/bunker) in Argentina by the Israeli Mossad and brought to Israel to stand trial.  This was the true life espionage action that put the tiny Israeli Mossad "on the map" and defined them as a world class espionage outfit with international reach.
Link Posted: 4/8/2009 9:45:16 PM EDT
[#19]
Originally Posted By Pontius:
Climbing (for the masses)

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson (Anything by Simpson is good, this one will hurt you)



I also like In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods, by Galen Rowell.  It's about the failed 1975 US assault on K2.  

Link Posted: 4/25/2009 8:26:13 PM EDT
[#20]
One Second After by William Forstchen
Link Posted: 5/22/2009 1:59:38 AM EDT
[#21]
Originally Posted By WolfTrack:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

and most recently,

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin


If you liked Atlas Shrugged, you should read The Fountainhead, again by Ayn Rand.
Link Posted: 5/30/2009 11:14:32 AM EDT
[#22]
I just read "Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution" by Mark Puls. It's currently available at Borders. Very well written from a readability aspect. I recommend it.
Link Posted: 6/3/2009 6:59:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: crazytuco] [#23]
World War Z by Max Brooks

John Scalzi's Old Man's War series of Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigade, and The Last Colony

And the best stuff I've read in a long time is George R. R. Martin's still unfinished Song of Ice and Fire series which so far includes Game of Thrones, Clash of Kings, Storm of Swords, Feast for Crows, and the still promeised but so far undelivered Dance of Dragons.  This series is starting to film as an HBO series later this year.



ETA: Also anything by the late David Gemmell.
Link Posted: 6/7/2009 6:31:06 PM EDT
[#24]
American Gods by Neil Gaiman(the novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on a mysterious and taciturn protagonist, Shadow.)

Fantasy
The legend of Huma by Richard A. Knaak(when reading remember that you will find that some of the story is different from Margaret's and Tracy's idea.)
The chronicles trilogy of Dragonlance by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The second generation of Dragonlance by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The lost chronicles trilogy of Dragonlance by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
and on and on (150+ books the ones by Margaret Weis , Tracy Hickman and Richard A. Knaak are the best ones)
Diablo series by Richard A. Knaak
The Sin War series by Richard A. Knaak

Stephen King's Cell
Vietnam: Ground Zero by Eric Helm
Link Posted: 6/8/2009 2:55:50 PM EDT
[#25]
Invitation to Valhalla, by Mike Whicker
Escape, by Carolyn Jessop
Link Posted: 6/19/2009 12:42:16 PM EDT
[#26]
I'm a little bit surprised that with all the books on sniping listed no one seems to have mentioned, "A Rifleman Went to War" by Herbert W. McBride.
This is THE definitive book on sniping written by the man who first wrote about sniping techniques which he largely personally developed on the battlefields of WWI.
At any rate, it's a good read as well as a somewhat scary view into the psychology of the type of individual who is particularly suited to this kind of work.
Link Posted: 7/10/2009 11:13:05 AM EDT
[#27]
I encourage everyone to read Paul Howe's Leadership And Training For The Fight.

Paul Howe is a retired Delta guy.  He currently owns and operates Combat Shooting and Tactics.  The book is a series of vignettes of his experiences in Somalia and Panama, each followed by an AAR; what went well, what went wrong, and what he and others learned from the experience.  He doesn't sugarcoat mistakes - in fact the number of things that don't quite go right might be surprising, but these guys just adjust and keep on rolling towards the objective.

Another good read by a retired CAG guy is The Mission, The Men, And Me by Pete Blaber.
Link Posted: 7/11/2009 10:33:04 PM EDT
[Last Edit: OlympicArmsFan] [#28]
I have two I would toss in to read. These are zombie books and great reads.

You can find these at Permuted Press and most local book stores.

1- Day By Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne great book fast read and its in its second printing with a third getting ready to be released. This is in a series part two due out later and the author has been signed to do a seven book series. This book is in pre-order state as its been picked up by a major printing company.

About the book-

Sporadic news reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through U.S. cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain. INTERCEPT COMPLETE_ Survivor, In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man's struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. Enter if you will into his world. -The world of the undead

2-EDEN by Tony Monchinski great book and a great author. I have talked with him in emails a good bit. He is of all things a school teacher and in all places NY. I loved EDEN and hope to have another one as I think it will be a series.

About the book-

Seemingly overnight the world transforms into a barren wasteland ravaged by plague and overrun by hordes of flesh-eating zombies. A small band of desperate men and women stand their ground in a fortified compound in what had been Queens, New York. They've named their sanctuary Eden.

Harris––the unusual honest man in this dead world––races against time to solve a murder while maintaining his own humanity. Because the danger posed by the dead and diseased mass clawing at Eden's walls pales in comparison to the deceit and treachery Harris faces within.

Link Posted: 7/28/2009 3:11:07 AM EDT
[#29]
Wilbur Smith's "A Falcon Flies"

It is the first book of 4 in a series that follows the history of a family in southern Africa and the land that would become Rhodesia.  All the way from the British combating the slave trade in the 1860s to the Rhodesian war in the late 1970s.

I will post more recommendations, it is late and this is the first time I ever looked in the book forum.
Link Posted: 9/27/2009 4:10:08 AM EDT
[#30]
My Dad was in Vietnam, and I found an author named Joe Haldeman that was also in Vietnam. That war has always fascinated me, so I picked up his first story "The Forever War". It's SF, in the vein of R. Heinlein, and it is phenomenal.
Link Posted: 9/28/2009 7:37:38 PM EDT
[#31]
Here are my favorite military, spycraft, action adventure and mystery novelists.  Excuse the long list, I read alot.
Andrew Britton
Dale Brown
Joe Buff
Ward Carroll
Tom Clancy
Stephen Coonts
Harold Coyle
Clive Cussler
Patrick Davis
David Debatto
Jim Defelice
Michael Dimercurio
Jack Dubrul
Barry Eisler
Vince Flynn
David Hagberg
Brian Haig
Jack Higgins
Stephen Hunter
James Huston
Gordon Kent
Jon Land
John R. Maxim
Andy McNab
Oliver North
David Poyer
H. Jay Riker
Patrick Robinson
James Rollins
Brad Thor

I have a few other authors that I like but I figured that's a good long list already.
Link Posted: 10/3/2009 2:23:59 AM EDT
[#32]
Link Posted: 10/13/2009 9:20:23 PM EDT
[#33]
Here are a few that I've enjoyed:

Feast Of Bones,  Daniel Bolger.  Fiction Written from the Soviet Air Assault perspective.

SOG,   James Plaster. Non Fiction  Special Operations Viet Nam.

Wayne Goddard's  $50.00 Knife Shop,   Wayne Goddard.  Non fiction. Knifemaking.

With The Old Breed,  E.B. Sledge. Non Fiction  USMC in WWll.

The Hunter, The Hammer, And Heaven, Robert Young Pelton.  Non Fiction  Current Events.

Eric
Link Posted: 10/28/2009 12:53:58 AM EDT
[#34]
Crime and Punishment



Link Posted: 11/15/2009 5:12:43 PM EDT
[#35]
Originally Posted By joker581:
Dick Couch's books about the SEALs are great-The Warrior Elite, The Finishing School, and Down Range. I don't know about his fiction books. Chosen Soldier, his book about Army Special Forces training is okay, but there are better books out there on that particular subject.



The Finishing School is good, I'm reading it now.

Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell is a GREAT book.
Link Posted: 1/2/2010 2:12:24 AM EDT
[#36]
A Rumor of War - Phillip Caputo
In The Line of Fire : A Memoir - Pervez Musharraf
Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden
Making a Killing - James Ashcroft
The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter Thompson
My War - Colby Buzzel
D Day - Stephen Ambrose
Link Posted: 1/20/2010 1:47:13 PM EDT
[#37]
I am reading a translated version of Menzel's History of Germany in three volumes published in 1899. It is an interesting perspective being written before WWI. He has a very vibrant style and finds much pride and glory in his heritige, Being as how this is probably what the Germmans of WWII got their history education from it gives insight into them from that perspective. It can be found in full view on Google books or reading copies are reasonable from abebooks. Very recomended and not typical dry writing style. He was a fairly prominent historian in his time.
Link Posted: 2/22/2010 11:14:41 PM EDT
[#38]
Originally Posted By Kujo:
One Second After by William Forstchen


+1 to this. I just finished and it was a VERY good read

I haven't looked through each page so sorry if these are repeats.

The Men, The Mission and Me by Pete Blaber
Bravo Two Zero by Andy Mcnab
Inside Delta Force by Eric Haney
Recondo by Larry Chambers
anything by Gary Linderer
Link Posted: 3/3/2010 12:20:31 PM EDT
[#39]
The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose
Link Posted: 3/8/2010 6:53:37 PM EDT
[#40]
Unintended Consequences by John Ross.

A must read if you are part of the gun culture.
Link Posted: 3/10/2010 8:25:48 PM EDT
[#41]
Ill second the

The Hot Gates , i read it about 2 years before the 300 movie came out. Not too fantasy compared to 300.  (not read Tides of War yet but i have it)

About Face: Odyssey of an American Warrior    (long book, the first half is great, the second drags a little)

Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 (i liked this one a bit, though some called it boring)

War of the Rats

Fox on the Rhine ( a what if ww2 did not end like it did)

The Master Sniper, and all of the Bob Lee Swagger stories (which they simply ripped off for the movie shooter, since its a shell of what the book is)

i dont know if anyone here is a sci-fi , warhammer/warhammer 40k fan
but many of the books out now are pretty good scifi from the Black Library

Gaunt's Ghosts series of books
Soul Drinker
The Horus Heresy series is top knotch
and a host of others.

Link Posted: 5/5/2010 9:04:13 PM EDT
[Last Edit: loadbearing511] [#42]
I found a new book at B & N that I am about to start called
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged A New Afghanistan
by Eric Blehm
Link Posted: 5/29/2010 1:49:57 PM EDT
[#43]
Originally Posted By loadbearing511:
I found a new book at B & N that I am about to start called
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged A New Afghanistan
by Eric Blehm


Just finished this. Some pretty powerful stuff in their given the current situation.

Link Posted: 6/5/2010 5:41:19 PM EDT
[Last Edit: jaybird013] [#44]
Why Israel Can't Wait by Jerome R. Corsi, PH.D. Very good book to understand the threat to Israel and understand why they raided the ship recently and the threat of Iran to them and America.
They Must Be Stopped by Brigitte Gabreil
Because they Hate by Brigitte Gabreil, these two books will open your eyes to the threat that we face of radical Islamic terrorist in America.
Matthew Brackens series of books are also good.
The Manchurain President by Aaron Klien exposes Obama and his ties to communiast, socialist, andother anti-American extremist.
I have plenty more books that are also good.

Link Posted: 6/10/2010 10:36:45 PM EDT
[#45]
I saw it mentioned in here once but felt that it should be mentioned again. John Steakleys "Armor" is a great read for anyone into Science Fiction. One of the reviews I read for this book put it best by saying that the book would be just like Starship Troopers if Heinlein could write action. I have read this book a litteral 14 times in the 7 years I've owned it.
Link Posted: 7/20/2010 9:59:09 PM EDT
[#46]
Originally Posted By WolfTrack:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

+1  It's long, and a little weird at times, but everyone on this board should read it.
Link Posted: 7/27/2010 5:24:50 PM EDT
[#47]
Originally Posted By Polish_Infidel:
Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen


Have you read FIRST IN by Gary Schroen?  The writer is the guy who started Jawbreaker.  He was in country a few days after September 11th until Berntsen replaced him.
Link Posted: 8/20/2010 9:34:23 PM EDT
[#48]
Some good recommendations here. . . .I'll add a few. . . .all non-fiction

I've become interested in WW1 and that time period––-a true hinge-point in history. . .

Anyway a friend's father, now deceased, had this book and my friend past it on to me . . .don't know if it's still in print, but it's a great read about what life was like for soldiers in the trenches of WW1

"Some Desperate Glory" by Edwin Vaughn.  It was a diary he kept as a very young subaltern in the English Army.  He died in the twenties, and one of his children found it in a cabinet.  I don't believe it was published until the late 60's or early 70's. . . .

Another book that I read, that was recommended by someone here a few years ago: Under the Red Sea Sun. Can't remember the author's name. . . story of a Navy salvage expert, (think he was almost 50 when recalled to duty in WW2) sent to IIRC, Eritrea (East Africa coast) to get former Italian port operational after they scuttled the ships, and wrecked the facilities. . . Good story of a guy doing his best with very little resources in an out of the way place. . .no banners waving, gung-ho hero stuff. . . don't think it will appeal to younger people, but older ones will appreciate this theme. . .inspiring book really. .would make a great movie IMHO if done right. . .

Also, another diary, Life in Custer's Cavalry––Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz.   I found it fascinating (my wife was bored with it), as it gives a real window into a time and place that is gone, but is, in a way, not too distant.   I was struck while reading it that the Battle of Little Big Horn (which the author did NOT take part in), was less that 100 years before the height of the Viet-Nam war. . . so much happened it what is really a short time. . .

Good reading. . .
Link Posted: 8/22/2010 12:14:19 AM EDT
[#49]
Originally Posted By OlympicArmsFan:
I have two I would toss in to read. These are zombie books and great reads.

You can find these at Permuted Press and most local book stores.

1- Day By Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne great book fast read and its in its second printing with a third getting ready to be released. This is in a series part two due out later and the author has been signed to do a seven book series. This book is in pre-order state as its been picked up by a major printing company.

About the book-

Sporadic news reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through U.S. cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain. INTERCEPT COMPLETE_ Survivor, In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man's struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. Enter if you will into his world. -The world of the undead

2-EDEN by Tony Monchinski great book and a great author. I have talked with him in emails a good bit. He is of all things a school teacher and in all places NY. I loved EDEN and hope to have another one as I think it will be a series.

About the book-

Seemingly overnight the world transforms into a barren wasteland ravaged by plague and overrun by hordes of flesh-eating zombies. A small band of desperate men and women stand their ground in a fortified compound in what had been Queens, New York. They've named their sanctuary Eden.

Harris––the unusual honest man in this dead world––races against time to solve a murder while maintaining his own humanity. Because the danger posed by the dead and diseased mass clawing at Eden's walls pales in comparison to the deceit and treachery Harris faces within.



Why the fuck would you recommend EDEN?

That is a serious question. I have known 5 year old children who could articulate their thoughts better then the author of that book. Not to mention the spelling...
Link Posted: 8/31/2010 1:49:10 PM EDT
[#50]
Originally Posted By EastWind:
The Long Walk - Written by Stephen King under a psuedonym which I can't remember.


Richard Bachman
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